6.0 MW Biomass based cogeneration power plant of Rama Paper Mills Limited, Kiratpur, Uttar Pradesh.

Audit Analysis

A 6 MW biomass cogeneration project in India with VVB-confirmed additionality and a quantified leakage treatment, but significant gaps in feedstock sustainability, permanence safeguards, and verified emissions data. Multiple contradictions between the PDD, validation reports, and monitoring reports—particularly on baseline methodology and leakage treatment—reduce confidence in the credit's robustness. The project lacks FPIC, a grievance mechanism, and any documented safeguards framework.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠Baseline methodology is contradictory: the PDD (2007) describes a jurisdictional baseline while the 2012 monitoring report references a project-specific baseline, creating uncertainty about which baseline was actually applied.
• ⚠No feedstock sustainability assessment, carbon content testing, or storage verification data found in any available document for a biomass project.
• ⚠No FPIC, grievance mechanism, or safeguards documentation despite the project operating in a rural Indian community.
• ⚠Grid emission factor is from 2005 and no updated value is provided in the 2012 monitoring report.
• ⚠Crediting period end date is missing from the 2012 monitoring report, making the full project lifetime and pro-rata credit calculation impossible to verify.

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